Cyrus Ingerson (C.I.) Scofield (1843–1921) was a Civil War veteran, U.S. state attorney, Kansas legislator, and influential American congregational minister . He was also a charlatan, a convicted criminal and a rogue. He was born into a mainline Anglican, or Episcopalian, a home of seven children, in the state of Michigan. But what C.I. Scofield is mostly known for is his authorship of the study Bible that bears his name: the infamous Scofield Reference Bible , which became